The vast majority of immigrants coming to the U.S.-Mexico border clearly want the opportunity to enter a legal process, and many of them are accessing the only legal process available to them: asylum and related procedures.
If the government concludes that an asylum claim is credible - which it does three-quarters of the time - it generally releases asylum seekers into the United States pending an immigration court hearing to determine the validity of the claim.
Although most immigrants arriving at the border from Central America will not receive asylum, about one in six people at the border who assert a credible fear of persecution do receive asylum by proving their cases in immigration court.
Since 2015, there have been about 96 asylum claims by Central Americans at the border for each refugee admitted from Central America.
Because asylum seekers are eligible for employment authorization after their application has been pending for 180 days, the United States already has a de facto worker program for Central America, just one that requires the workers to travel to the border and ask for asylum.
None of the above proposed reforms would address two of the biggest problems for the asylum system - the immense backlog of immigration court cases and the number of asylum seekers already in the process, most of whom will not end up receiving any form of legal status.
Congress should grant a permanent legal status to the current illegal and asylum-seeking populations, which would clear immigration court backlogs, prevent asylum seekers from becoming illegal immigrants, and allow family of the legalized immigrants to reunite legally.
https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/legal-immigration-will-resolve-americas-real-border-problems
If the government concludes that an asylum claim is credible - which it does three-quarters of the time - it generally releases asylum seekers into the United States pending an immigration court hearing to determine the validity of the claim.
Although most immigrants arriving at the border from Central America will not receive asylum, about one in six people at the border who assert a credible fear of persecution do receive asylum by proving their cases in immigration court.
Since 2015, there have been about 96 asylum claims by Central Americans at the border for each refugee admitted from Central America.
Because asylum seekers are eligible for employment authorization after their application has been pending for 180 days, the United States already has a de facto worker program for Central America, just one that requires the workers to travel to the border and ask for asylum.
None of the above proposed reforms would address two of the biggest problems for the asylum system - the immense backlog of immigration court cases and the number of asylum seekers already in the process, most of whom will not end up receiving any form of legal status.
Congress should grant a permanent legal status to the current illegal and asylum-seeking populations, which would clear immigration court backlogs, prevent asylum seekers from becoming illegal immigrants, and allow family of the legalized immigrants to reunite legally.
https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/legal-immigration-will-resolve-americas-real-border-problems
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